After being the bread and butter of the web for most of its early history, tables were cast aside by many designers for newer, trendier layouts. But while they might be making fewer appearances on the web these days, data tables still collect and organize much of the information we interact with on a day-to-day basis.

a brief critique and fully-working redesign of a recent New York Times interactive graphic

Many companies seems to go through a pattern of hiring a data science team only for the entire team to quit or be fired around 12 months later. Why is the failure rate so high?

Khartis was born from a finding: how to make a thematic map just in few clicks, keeping requirement and scientific rigor in data processing? The team behind Khartis has refined this idea in teaching situations, research or map production.

Dear Data is a year-long, analog data drawing project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec.

These stories illustrate common problems that occur with the uncontrolled use of spreadsheets. In many cases, we identify the area of risk involved and then say how we think the problem might have been avoided.

Um corpus de aproximadamente 180 milhões de palavras em português europeu, criado pelo projecto Processamento Computacional do Português após a assinatura de um protocolo entre o Ministério da Ciência e da Tecnologia (MCT) português e o jornal PÚBLICO em Abril de 2000.

ØMQ is a small, fast, and free software library that gives you message-passing concurrency for applications in most common languages.

For this exercise, I’ll be adding pymunk (Python bindings for the Chipmonk physics library) to NodeBox

Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils

an open document markup language inspired on TeX and XML

allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)